Most likely you did not attend the Recognition Professionals International (RPI) Annual Experience Conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia in April this year. If you did, you would have seen a display of the world’s largest array of programs, tools, and options for rewarding employee engagement, innovation, and performance. A common theme during the […]
Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
05/31/2019
May 2019 – How to Get Your Employees Really Excited About Innovation
This month, with great fanfare Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Georgia announced the opening of its $400M Coda building. It is designated as a “Lab for Creation”. The 21-story building in unlike any other one because it features a grand piazza at its base where a food hall and outdoor furniture welcomes students, faculty and […]
04/30/2019
April 2019 – Successfully Crossing the Finish Line with Your Innovation
This month a team of Israeli researchers announced the breakthrough of “printing” the world’s first 3-D vascularized, engineered heart by utilizing tissue cells from the patient’s own biological material. Up to now, with 3-D printer technology scientists have only successfully printed simple tissues without blood. The director of the project, Prof. Tal Dvir of Tel […]
03/31/2019
March 2019 – Effectively Developing Innovative Ideas
The Problem Last month it was reported that reasonably priced fruits and vegetables could disappear in America because of a dwindling pool of farm workers. Agricultural analysts say the labor shortage is already forcing up wages. “The labor force keeps shrinking,” said Gary Wishnatzki, a third-generation strawberry farmer. “If we don’t solve this with automation, […]
02/28/2019
February 2019 – With Innovation – “Platforms” Are Where the Profits Are
In January, in a highly unusual move, Toyota Motors announced it had offered to share its automated safety system which uses self-driving technology to keep cars from crashing, with its car manufacturing rivals. The system, which is known as Guardian, takes control of a vehicle to steer it around an impending crash or accelerate it out […]
01/31/2019
January 2019 – Want to Change the World Through Innovation? Then Do This
A game changing innovation was announced this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that could alter the way we buy consumer products. The tool for this potential shift is called Loop, which aims to eliminate disposable containers for food, beverages, and consumables like shampoo and laundry detergent. Some of the world’s biggest […]
12/31/2018
December 2018 – Do This One Thing To Become More Innovative
During 2018 many new innovations were developed and one of the most interesting ones is a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a “smart pill” which contains a strain of bacteria and electronics that can be used to identify signs of disease in a person’s body. Hopefully as this technology improves […]
11/30/2018
November 2018 – Why the US is the #1 Place for Businesses – Innovation
You may have seen the 40th annual release of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report in October ranked the United States as the world’s most competitive economy. The report looked at 98 criteria involving social, political and economic factors for 140 different countries and ranked the United States as the #1 country because of […]
10/31/2018
October 2018 – The Huge Lesson to be Learned from Sears’ Bankruptcy
Most likely you saw the news that the venerable company, Sears filed for bankruptcy in October. What can we learn from its demise? Sears, which eventually changed its name to Sears & Roebuck started in 1886 in Minneapolis, Mn. and moved to Chicago in 1887, was one of the most innovative companies of its time. […]
09/30/2018
September 2018 – With Innovation, You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
As it turns out with innovation you can teach an old dog new tricks, and Microsoft Word is a great example. Word processing software, which was first developed by IBM has been around since the early 1970’s, so you would think that everything that could have been added to it in the past 45 years would […]
